Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 23, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. RMS is Done at KCL, Next Stop is Oxford

   The message of RMS has long resonated well in India

2. US Government Already Bailing Out OpenAI/Microsoft With "Contracts", As Usual, Back Doors You Cannot Remove Becoming 'a Step Closer' on New PCs (Unless Everyone Acts ASAP)

   The next "logical" step towards digital prisons

3. Towards GNU World Domination

   The FSF led by Geoffrey S. Knauth with his friend Richard Stallman in the FSF's Board [...] Let's encourage people to adopt GNU/Linux. There has never been a better time.

4. GNOME, Microsoft, and GitHub: The Lack of Reporting on Abusive Colleagues Contributed to Profound Media Vacuum (or Blackout), Now Resorting to SLAPPs

   This lack of morality/courage has helped enable further abuse, lining up more victims

5. Microsoft Already Attacks the BSDs as Well (the E.E.E. Way, as Usual)

   Bearers of bad news

6. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is in Trouble, May Soon be Out of Business

   Openwashing needs to end

7. Microsoft's Debt Grew Over 6 Billion Dollars in the Last Reporting Quarter (Before Inauguration), Expect Worse Next Week When 'Results' Are Disclosed and Mass Layoffs Resume

   Microsoft is bleeding. It does not want people to notice.

   New

8. Links 22/04/2025: Ending DEI Policies at Adobe, FTC Sues Uber

   Links for the day

9. Microsoft Devises PR Stunts to Distract From Impending Mass Layoffs and Likely Bad Results Preceding Those Mass Layoffs

   A "voluntary exit plan"

10. Gemini Links 22/04/2025: Deaths, HamsterCMS, and More

    Links for the day

11. Links 22/04/2025: FTC v. Meta Trial and Google Remedies

    Links for the day

12. In Turkey, Windows Down Rapidly While GNU/Linux Grows

    Although Turkey is in NATO (but not the EU), it cannot quite trust computer systems controlled by the United States

13. Richard Stallman Has Updated His Article on Why "Free Software Is Even More Important Now"

    Richard Stallman is about to give a talk here in the UK in a few hours

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 21, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, April 21, 2025

16. Richard Stallman Gives Public Talk in London in 7 Hours (Need to Register as Venue Limited to 150 Seats), Public Announcements Begin to Appear

    These are not announced weeks or months in advance

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